Friday, October 30, 2015

Saying they weren't classified at the time is a ruse. Hillary Clinton was one of the administration officials who were authorized to classify materials and she was trained on what should be classified every year.

Hundreds more emails from Hillary Clinton's time as secretary of
state were newly deemed classified as part of Friday's State Department
release of more than 7,000 pages of her messages, which revealed more
about Clinton's knowledge of embassy security issues and lighter moments
like Clinton's use of emojis.
Friday's document release is the sixth of its kind and with it, more
than half of the messages turned over to the agency have now been made
publicly available. The 268 emails now deemed classified in this batch
are at the lowest classification tier, according to State Department
spokesman John Kirby, who said that none of these emails "were marked
classified at the time they were sent or received." There are now
between 600 and 700 emails newly marked as classified since the releases
began in May.

WASHINGTON
— The White House will try to block the release of a handful of emails
between President Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton,
citing longstanding precedent invoked by presidents of both parties to
keep presidential communications confidential, officials said Friday.

The
State Department discovered the emails between Mr. Obama and Mrs.
Clinton as part of its effort to release the former secretary’s emails,
several thousand more of which were scheduled to be made public on
Friday. Mr. Obama’s correspondence was forwarded for review to the White
House, which has decided against release.

Median income is down, millions are dropping out of the workforce and joining the food stamp rolls. We are $18 trillion in debt. ISIS is trying to take over the Middle East and we should be worried about pumpkins causing climate change? When did out government get so stupid?

The Department of Energy claims that Halloween pumpkins
contribute to climate change, suggesting that the plants can be
converted to biofuel in order to spare the environment.
“With the passing of Halloween, millions of pounds of pumpkins have
turned from seasonal decorations to trash destined for landfills, adding
to more than 254 million tons of municipal solid waste (MSW) produced
in the United States every year,” a post to the Energy Department’s
website this week read.
“At landfills, MSW decomposes and eventually turns into methane–a
harmful greenhouse gas that plays a part in climate change, with more
than 20 times the warming effect of carbon dioxide (CO2),” the
government agency warned.Keep on reading…

Thursday, October 29, 2015

(CNSNews.com)
– In the Detroit public school district, 96 percent of eighth graders
are not proficient in mathematics and 93 percent are not proficient in
reading.
That is according to the results of the 2015 National Assessment of
Educational Progress tests published by the Department of Education’s
National Center for Educational Statistics.
Only 4 percent of Detroit public school eighth graders are proficient
or better in math and only 7 percent in reading. This is despite the
fact that in the 2011-2012 school year—the latest for which the
Department of Education has reported the financial data—the Detroit
public schools had “total expenditures” of $18,361 per student and
“current expenditures” of $13,330 per student.Keep on reading…

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

I am fun.
I enjoy fun. I both have fun and can be fun. Fun is a word that
accurately describes me and a large quantity of things of which I am
fond. I appreciate fun when I encounter it, and I have even been known
to partake in activities that produce fun for myself and others. Fun is
something I often have when amongst a group of people. In such
situations, I am capable of amusing others and, in turn, of being amused
by them.
Thus, I am a fun person.Keep on reading…

NRO –
Paul Ryan has signed off on a letter promising restless members of the
House Freedom Caucus (HFC) that he won’t bring immigration-reform
legislation to the House floor while President Obama remains in office.
The letter, obtained exclusively by National Review, formalizes
pledges that Ryan made last week in a closed-door meeting with select
members of the HFC who were skeptical of his promise to maintain an
“open” and “inclusive” relationship with the caucus. Specifically, it
extracts Ryan’s word that he will not bring up comprehensive immigration
reform “so long as Barack Obama is president” and, as speaker, Ryan
will not allow any immigration bill to reach the floor for a vote unless
a “majority” of GOP members support it.Keep on reading…

First, United Nations officials label bacon and deli
meats as carcinogens, and now scientists are claiming that higher
concentrations of carbon dioxide are not only heating the planet,
they’re making people dumber.
A new study by the Harvard School of Public Health claims “carbon
dioxide (CO2) has a direct and negative impact on human cognition and
decision-making,” according to ThinkProgress, a left-wing advocacy
website.
Former Vice President Al Gore wasted no time tweeting out
ThinkProgress’ in-depth article, trying to link higher carbon dioxide
levels to lower cognition in humans.Keep on reading…

Tuesday, October 27, 2015

WASHINGTON—Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT)and 18 members of the Committee introduced a resolution to begin proceedings in the U.S. House of Representatives to impeach Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner John Koskinen.

In introducing the resolution, Chairman Chaffetz said, “Commissioner
Koskinen violated the public trust. He failed to comply with a
congressionally issued subpoena, documents were destroyed on his watch,
and the public was consistently misled. Impeachment is the appropriate
tool to restore public confidence in the IRS and to protect the
institutional interests of Congress. This action will demonstrate to the
American people that the IRS is under repair, and signal that Executive
Branch officials who violate the public trust will be held
accountable.”

Specifically, Commissioner Koskinen violated the public trust in the following ways:

Failed to comply with a subpoena resulting in destruction of key evidence. Commissioner
Koskinen failed to locate and preserve IRS records in accordance with a
congressional subpoena and an internal preservation order. The IRS
erased 422 backup tapes containing as many as 24,000 of Lois Lerner’s
emails – key pieces of evidence that were destroyed on Koskinen’s watch.

Failed to testify truthfully and provided false and misleading information.
Commissioner Koskinen testified the IRS turned over all emails relevant
to the congressional investigation, including all of Ms. Lerner’s
emails. When the agency determined Ms. Lerner’s emails were missing,
Commissioner Koskinen testified the emails were unrecoverable. These
statements were false.

Failed to notify Congress that key evidence was missing.
The IRS knew Lois Lerner’s emails were missing in February 2014. In
fact, they were not missing; the IRS destroyed the emails on March 4,
2014. The IRS did not notify Congress the emails were missing until
June 2014 – four months later, and well after the White House and the
Treasury Department were notified.

The Islamic State terrorist group is raking in up to $50
million a month from the sales of crude from oilfields under its control
in Iraq and Syria, according to Iraqi intelligence and U.S. officials.
The militant group’s oil boom, highlighted by the Associated Press on
Friday, demonstrates a well-run terrorist industry that U.S. diplomacy
and airstrikes have so far failed to shut down.
The oil sales are the extremists’ largest single source of continual
income and are a key reason the group has been able to maintain their
control over their self-declared “caliphate” over Iraq and Syria.
Islamic State militants sell crude to smugglers at prices that vary
between $10 and $35 per barrel, Iraqi intelligence officials told the
Associated Press. The international price of oil is about $50 per
barrel.
The smugglers then sell the oil to middlemen in Turkey, or, according
to one Iraqi official, to individuals in Kurdish areas of Iraq, as
well. A Kurdish politician denied the claim.
The extremists were believed to have extracted about 30,000 barrels a
day in Syria, and about 10,000 to 20,000 barrels per day in Iraq,
according to AP.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) – Unhappy with the number of potential black
jurors called to his court last week, Jefferson Circuit Court Judge Olu
Stevens halted a drug trial and dismissed the entire jury panel, asking
for a new group to be sent up.
“The concern is that the panel is
not representative of the community,” said Stevens, who brought in a new
group of jurors despite objections from both the defense and
prosecutor.
And this wasn’t the first time Stevens, who is black,
has dismissed a jury because he felt it was lacking enough minorities.
Now the state Supreme Court is going to determine whether the judge is
abusing his power.
On Nov. 18, after a 13-member jury chosen for a
theft trial ended up with no black jurors, Stevens found it
“troublesome” and dismissed the panel at the request of a defense
attorney.
“There is not a single African-American on this jury and
(the defendant) is an African-American man,” Stevens said, according to
a video of the trial. “I cannot in good conscious go forward with this
jury.” Read it all...

Monday, October 26, 2015

WASHINGTON — Republican voters view Donald
Trump as their strongest general election candidate, according to an
Associated Press-GfK poll that highlights the sharp contrast between the
party's voters and its top professionals regarding the billionaire
businessman's ultimate political strength.

Seven
in 10 Republican and Republican-leaning registered voters say Trump
could win in November 2016 if he is nominated, and that's the most who
say so of any candidate. By comparison, 6 in 10 say the same for retired
neurosurgeon Ben Carson, who, like Trump, has tapped into the powerful
wave of anti-establishment anger defining the early phases of the 2016
contest.

Fire-breathing scourge of Wall Street on the campaign trail — and
reliable friend of Wall Street in the boardroom. That’s Hillary Clinton —
and the big-money crowd thinks it’s in on the game.
For all her populist rhetoric against hedge-funders and the like,
Clinton has received more donations from CEOs than any candidate in the
GOP — you know, the party of the greedy rich.
More than 760 of Clinton’s presidential donors have listed their
occupation as CEO or some variation, according to a Big Crunch analysis
of federal election forms.
That’s as many as have given to Republican hopefuls Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz combined.
And it doesn’t even include people like hedge-fund CEO Robert Mercer,
who prefers to list himself as a “financial consultant” — or those
who’ve given instead to pro-Hillary super-PACs. (Or all the folks who’ve
bought goodwill over the years by giving to the Clinton Foundation.)

Saturday, October 24, 2015

The father of Tyrone S. Woods, a CIA contractor killed
during the Benghazi attack, on Friday accused former Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton of lying to him and the American people about the
circumstances that led to his son’s death.
Charles Woods said new evidence presented at a House hearing Thursday
showing Mrs. Clinton knew within hours that the attack on Sept. 11,
2012 was a planned and carried out by al-Qaida linked terrorists proved
she lied to the victims’ families when she falsely blamed the incident
on a spontaneous protest over a U.S.-made anti-Islam video a few days
later.
In an interview with The Washington Times radio show, The Capitol
Hill Show with Tim Constantine, Mr. Woods recalled how Mrs. Clinton
greeted and consoled him at Andrew Air Force base as the body of his son
was returned from Libya.
“I gave Hillary a hug and shook her hand. And she said ‘we are going
to have the filmmaker arrested who is responsible for the death of your
son,’” Mr. Woods said.
“Based on her demeanor and body language I knew she wasn’t telling me the truth,” he added.Keep on reading…

As part of its review, GAO tested application and enrollment controls
on the federal exchange and two state exchanges (California and
Kentucky). Ten fictitious applicants were created to test whether
verification steps including validating an applicant’s Social Security
number, verifying citizenship, and verifying household income were
completed properly.
In order to test these controls, GAO’s test applications provided fraudulent documentation:

“For
each of the 10 undercover applications where we obtained qualified
health-plan coverage, the respective marketplace directed that our
applicants submit supplementary documentation… we provided counterfeit
follow-up documentation, such as fictitious Social Security cards with
impossible Social Security numbers, for all 10 undercover applications.”

As
the report notes, all ten applications remained enrolled on Obamacare
even though fraudulent or insufficient documentation was provided:

“For
all 10 of these undercover applications, we maintained subsidized
coverage beyond the period during which applicants may file supporting
documentation to resolve inconsistencies.”

Friday, October 23, 2015

According to the Economist/YouGov.com poll, over seven in 10 Obama
voters, and 55 percent of Democrats, regret voting for Obama’s 2012
reelection.
The poll asked those who voted for Obama’s reelection the question: “Do you regret voting for Barack Obama?”
Given a chance to do it all over again, only 29 percent of those who
voted for Obama would vote for him again and 71 percent of his voters,
now inclined to vote for somebody else, “regret” their vote to reelect
him, according to a new poll.

Hillary emailed Chelsea the night i=of the attack and blamed it on a terrorist attack, not a reaction to a video. The next day, she explicitly told the Egyptian Prime Minister it wasn't caused by a video. Liar, Liar pants on fire.

Reportedly, Ryan promised to not violate the Hastart rule. This informal rule prohibits moving legislation that does not have the support of a majority of Republicans. In the last couple of years, Boehner violated the rule several times and joined with Democrats to pass legislation most republicans voted against.

At a private Wed­nes­day even­ing meet­ing, about
two-thirds of the the con­ser­vat­ive House Free­dom Caucus voted to
sup­port Ry­an for speak­er. But the con­fer­ence fell short of the 80
per­cent vote ne­ces­sary to of­fi­cially en­dorse him. Ry­an has said
he will not run un­less all of the con­fer­ence’s most in­flu­en­tial
caucuses en­dorse him.
“While no con­sensus ex­ists among mem­bers of the House Free­dom
Caucus re­gard­ing Chair­man Ry­an’s pre­con­di­tions for serving, we
be­lieve that these is­sues can be re­solved with­in our Con­fer­ence in
due time,” read a state­ment re­leased by the group Wed­nes­day
even­ing. “We all know that Wash­ing­ton needs to change the way it does
busi­ness, and we look for­ward to work­ing with Paul and all our
col­leagues to en­act pro­cess re­forms that em­power in­di­vidu­al
rep­res­ent­at­ives and re­store re­spect to our in­sti­tu­tion.”Keep on reading…

Wednesday, October 21, 2015

A day before former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
will testify in front of the House Select Committee on Benghazi,
Democrats on the panel released a full transcript of an interview
conducted Sept. 3 with Clinton’s chief of staff, Cheryl Mills.
Democrats already released excerpts of the Mills interview earlier
this month. Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings, the committee’s ranking
Democrat, also said then that he planned to release the 307-page
transcript. Democrats defended the move, which they say is intended to
“correct the public record after numerous out-of-context and misleading
Republican leaks.”Keep reading…

Newly released documents show that the Obama
administration was eager to blame the Benghazi attack on a different
Youtube video before it eventually settled on the “Innocence of Muslims
video.”
A redacted email sent to the Diplomatic Security Command Center,
obtained Tuesday by the group Judicial Watch, reveals that the White
House’s priority at 9:11 PM on the night of the attack was to contact
Youtube about a “Pastor Jon” video.
“DOD is looking at various resources,” the email reads, followed by redacted information.
“S [then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton] expected to make
statements one of which may confirm KIA, notification of next of kin is
pending confirmation. DCM The Hague was to call OPS when completed.
White House is reaching out to U-Tube to advise ramifications of posting
of the Pastor Jon video,” the email continued.
The “Pastor Jon” video may be a video called God vs. Allah, which was produced by American pastor Jon Courson.
The State Department Bureau of Diplomatic Security’s September 12
“Attack Timeline” makes no mention of a Youtube video, and Hillary
Clinton received intelligence on September 12 linking the Ansar Al
Sharia terrorist group to the attack.
Nevertheless, the administration still went ahead and blamed a
different Youtube video, “Innocence of Muslims,” for inciting
spontaneous violence that led to the deaths of four Americans.

Well, Webb is closer on foreign policy to Republicans than he is to Democrats. Hopefully, moderate Democrats, if any are left, will exit the Democratic Party with Webb. The Democratic Party is now the party of left-wing extremists.

Former Virginia senator Jim Webb announced Tuesday afternoon that he
would no longer pursue the Democratic presidential nomination, saying
that he will instead gauge support in the coming weeks for a possible
White House bid as an independent candidate.
"More people in this
country call themselves political independents than Republicans or
Democrats. I happen to agree with them," Webb told reporters at a news
conference at the National Press Club in Washington.
"I am
withdrawing from any consideration of being the Democratic Party's
nominee for the presidency," he said. “This does not reduce in any way
my concerns for the challenges facing the country … or my intentions to
remain fully engaged in the debates that are facing us."
During a
question-and-answer session with reporters following Tuesday's
announcement, Webb said he has yet to decide if he will remain a
registered Democrat.

Senate Democrats on Tuesday blocked a Republican-backed
bill that would crack down on so-called sanctuary cities by threatening
to withhold funds to local governments that don’t cooperate with federal
immigration officials.
The bill failed on a 54-45 vote. It needed 60 to advance.
The Stop Sanctuary Cities Act became a lightning rod issue ahead of
the vote, as GOP sponsors tried to peel off just a few Democrats to
support it while Democratic leaders blasted the legislation as
counterproductive. The White House issued a formal veto threat Tuesday
morning, while the chamber’s top Democrat tried to discredit the measure
by calling it “The Donald Trump Act.”Keep on reading…

Inside a sleek Denver condominium, George W. Bush let a
hundred donors to his brother’s campaign in on a secret. Of all the
rival Republican candidates, there is one who gets under the former
president’s skin, who he views as perhaps Jeb Bush’s most serious rival
for the party’s nomination.
It isn’t Donald Trump, whose withering insults have sought to make
Jeb pay a political price for his brother’s presidency. It also isn’t
Marco Rubio, Jeb’s former understudy who now poses a serious threat to
his establishment support.

It appears that President Obama may not meet personally with Texas
student Ahmed Mohamed at tonight’s Astronomy Night at the White House,
according to White House aides.
“I don’t believe that the president will have the opportunity to meet
with meet one-on-one with Ahmed Mohamed,” Earnest confirmed during the
White House press breifing. He explained to reporters that there would
be “several hundred” students and teachers and scientists attending the
event.
Mohamed still plans to join the group of children who attend the
evening event, but he might not end up with a photograph with the
president. Obama is expected to deliver remarks at the event, but will
not likely remain for the duration of the event.

Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT)said his tax increases would “hit everybody” because he would raise the payroll tax to pay for paid family and medical leave.
Sanders said, “I think if you are looking about guaranteeing paid family and medical leave, which every other major country has so that when a mom gives birth she doesn’t have to go back to work in two weeks. Dad or mom can stay home with the kids. That will require a small increase in the payroll tax.”

MSNBC has admitted that highly controversial graphics
aired on the network that depicted Israel as stealing land from the
Palestinians were factually wrong and that the broadcast would be
corrected on Monday, according to a network spokesperson.
The cable news network has been fighting off criticism after it aired
the graphics and analysis, including a map linked to conspiracy groups
branded as anti-Semitic, that portrayed Israel as existing on territory
expropriated from Palestine.
The graphics garnered criticism from pro-Israel advocates and has now
prompted the network to acknowledge that the graphics were highly
misleading.Keep on reading…

The Secret Service will give agent protection to Ben
Carson and Donald Trump while heavily upgrading Hillary Clinton’s
existing detail, a Washington source close to the agency’s plans
confirmed to Newsmax.
The deployment of agents around Republican candidates Trump and
Carson is set to begin as early as next week. Approximately two dozen
agents will be assigned to each candidate.
Clinton, the Democratic front-runner, has had Secret Service
protection since leaving the White House as first lady in 2001, but her
detail will be heavily upgraded by the agency’s move.
The agency’s decision was primarily triggered by a significant number
of threats to Carson, including death threats and terrorist chatter,
the source said.
The threats to the retired pediatric neurosurgeon have been “off the
charts,” the source said. Polls show Carson either tied with Trump for
front-runner status or in second place.Keep on reading…

WASHINGTON — After a week of controversy surrounding its abrupt
removal of pork dishes from the national menu for federal inmates, the
government did an about-face this week and put pork roast back on the
prison bill of fare.
The Bureau of Prisons disclosed the decision
to The Washington Post hours after a Republican Senate leader expressed
dismay at what he implied was a wasteful survey of inmates’ food
preferences and a lack of transparency in the decision.
“The pork
industry is responsible for 547,800 jobs, which creates $22.3 billion in
personal incomes and contributes $39 billion to the gross domestic
product,” Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, wrote in a letter Thursday
to Bureau of Prisons Director Charles E. Samuels, Jr.[snip]

To corroborate the validity of the claim that prisoners indicated a lack
of interest in pork products, I am requesting copies of the prisoner
surveys and responses that were used to support the determination to no
longer serve pork in federal prisons. Additionally, the spokesman
indicated that pork had been the lowest rated food, ‘for several years.’ ...

A former Army vet is recovering from stab wounds after
putting himself between 16 terrified children and a knife-wielding teen
determined to kill at an Illinois public library this week.
“He actually ran into the room yelling, ‘I’m going to kill some people!’” James Vernon told the Pekin Daily Times Thursday.
Vernon, 75– a retired Caterpillar technology worker and Army vet—is
recovering from surgery at his home in Morton, Illinois. He was leading a
chess club meeting with local kids at the Morton library Tuesday
afternoon when Dustin Brown, 19, burst into the room holding a knife in
each hand and threatening the children.
“I failed my mission to kill everyone,” Brown told police Thursday,
according to a prosecutor’s court affidavit that accompanied formal
charges, including attempted murder.Keep on reading…

Friday, October 16, 2015

Hillary Clinton could be prosecuted in federal court for
failing to tell President Barack Obama about her private email server at
the time she was running it, according to a veteran FBI agent.
Obama said flatly during a ’60 Minutes’ interview on Sunday that
‘No,’ he did not know Clinton sidestepped security protocols with her a
home-brew email setup while she was his secretary of state.
The FBI agent who spoke with DailyMail.com has had a 20-year career
in federal law enforcement and serves in a supervisory capacity in a
domestic FBI field office.
He said on Friday that failing to put Obama in the loop could be enough to send her to prison for ten years.Keep on reading…

Vice President Joe Biden has personally made a series of
calls this week to Democratic strategists from Iowa, New Hampshire and
South Carolina, asking a final round of detailed questions about how —
not whether — to launch a 2016 presidential campaign.
People familiar with the conversations tell CNN that Biden has been
making the calls throughout the week, including on Wednesday, just as
many leading Democrats argued the window to a potential candidacy was
closing in the wake of Hillary Clinton’s strong performance in the
party’s first presidential debate. He is asking these people to work for
him if he runs.Keep on reading…

The reason is gas prices are holding down the calculated price measure. That may be a little unfair to seniors. Many of them don't own a car or even drive. The cost of food, especially meat and eggs is up. Also, thanks to Obama's regulations, electricity is continuing it's to rise.

Blame soft inflation, including the nearly 30% drop in
gas prices over the past year. The official price measure used to
calculate the annual living-cost adjustment was down 0.4% from last
year’s level in the third quarter, the Labor Department said Thursday.
Congress adopted the formula in the 1970s. While it has resulted in
an average benefit increase of 4.1% over the past 40 years, benefits
have gone up an average of just 2% over the past 10 years. There were no
increases for 2010 and 2011.Keep on reading…

Gov. Andrew Cuomo wasn’t taking any chances that there
might be empty seats at a speech he delivered last week on climate
change — so state workers were summoned on the taxpayer dime to fill the
audience, The Post has learned.
The workers said they left their jobs in the middle of the day
Thursday and were paid their full salaries to hear Cuomo at Columbia
University announce the state was joining a global effort to reduce
greenhouse gas emissions.Keep on reading…

Seeing their comments repeatedly deleted by CNN, Bernie Sanders supporters are hopping mad today.
Already
feeling the news network’s coverage had become rabidly pro-Hillary in
the aftermath of last night’s debate, Facebook users leaving reactions
on CNN’s page are now continually re-posting them, knowing they will be
quickly removed. There are hundreds in a seeming battle with the
network, with no explanation as to why.
Some
users and messages appear to be specifically targeted, especially those
accusing CNN of having conflicts of interest that make it naturally
inclined to back Hillary.

Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Iranian state television broadcast unprecedented footage
Wednesday of a deep underground tunnel packed with missiles and launcher
units, which officials said could be used if “enemies make a mistake”.
The pictures were released just three days after Iran tested a new
long-range missile that the United States said may have breached a UN
Security Council resolution.
The footage also came a day after Iran’s parliament approved the country’s July 14 nuclear deal with six world powers.Keep on reading…

ANDERSON COOPER: Nearly ten years ago, in 2007 I was asked to moderate a panel discussion at Clinton Global Initiative. Honestly, I can't even remember what the panel was. There were no Clintons on the panel. I think it was on, like, international development aid or, honestly, I have no memory of what it was.

Cooper added, “I wasn't paid. I've never been back to the Clinton Global Initiative. I've never a member of CGI. I’ve never been to a cocktail party for CGI.”

Anderson
Cooper of CNN was perhaps the most charming of our special speakers.
We had some time together before the speeches started and Anderson had
lots of questions about our program. During his speech, he joked about
asking me how the PUR sachets worked and that he couldn’t understand
anything that I said, but he nodded his head and pretended that he
understood me like any good journalist. I guess that says something
about my communication skills!He
spoke movingly about seeing first-hand the impact of unsafe drinking
water in Burundi and how he witnessed a child dying from the dehydration
caused by severe diarrhea. Part of our CSDW commitment this year (Download 2008_csdw_commitment.doc) is an awareness raising effort with CNN, Scholastic, and the Do’it’s show on PBS.

You should read the whole blog post to see this was an event at the 2008 CGI. It claims Anderson Cooper was a special speaker at a Children’s Safe Drinking Water (CSDW) event that is described as "a celebration event at CGI called “Promises Made, Promises Kept.”"

A commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)
has threatened terror attacks against U.S. warships and vowed that the
Islamic Republic would chase U.S. forces into “the Gulf of Mexico” in
order to exact revenge for any attacks, according to regional reports.
Alireza Tangsiri, an IRGC lieutenant commander, said that suicide
bombers are on stand by and ready to “blow up themselves” to “destroy
the U.S. warships,” according to remarks made Monday in Iran’s
state-controlled Fars News Agency.“They [the U.S.] have tested us once and if necessary, there are
people who will blow up themselves with ammunitions to destroy the U.S.
warships,” Tangsiri was quoted as saying.
He added that if the United States takes any hostile action against
Iran, the country’s military forces would pursue the Americans into the
Gulf of Mexico.

The drumbeat for Joe Biden to jump into the 2016 presidential race is growing louder.
Almost half of the nation’s Democrats want the vice president to
enter the field and challenge front-runner Hillary Clinton, according to
a new Reuters/Ipsos poll.
The results come as speculation surrounding Biden’s intentions has
intensified, with reports having him close to a decision. The declared
Democratic presidential candidates, including Clinton and U.S. Senator
Bernie Sanders of Vermont, her closest rival, will take the stage
Tuesday night in Las Vegas for the first party debate.
Biden will not be there, but 48 percent of Democrats surveyed in the
Reuters poll wish he were a candidate, compared with 30 percent who said
he should stay out. Independents were split on the question, with 36
percent saying Biden should stay in and an equal share believing
otherwise.Keep on reading…

Several Republicans who aren’t as closely associated with outgoing House Speaker Rep. John Boehner (R-OH)
as House Ways and Means Committee chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI)
are considering running for Speaker as Ryan’s nascent campaign is crumbling before it even begins.

The two who have, at this time, the most likely ability to unite the GOP conference and achieve well more than the necessary 218 votes on the House floor are House Energy and Commerce Committee vice chairwoman Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN)
and former House Chief Deputy Whip Rep. Peter Roskam (R-IL)
. Other Republicans like Reps. Rep. Matt Salmon (R-AZ)
88%
, Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-MT)
, Rep. Lynn Westmoreland (R-GA)
, and even current non-House member former Speaker Newt Gingrich are considering bids. More names than those have been tossed out, too.

The wireless carrier announced the shift via an update on its
website, according to The Verge. Unlike most cookies, which originate
from an individual site or group of sites, Verizon’s identifier tracks
subscribers as they move around the Internet for the sake of the
company’s Relevant Mobile Advertising and Verizon Selects ad programs.
The AOL Advertising Network has a presence on some 40 percent of
websites, and affiliated parties could potentially build more detailed
profiles of Verizon customers as a result. The carrier bought AOL in
May.

Saturday, October 10, 2015

Lewis "Scooter" Libby was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison, a fine of $250,000, and two years of supervised release for his actions relating to the outing of material that revealed Valerie Plame was a classified CIA officer.

On March 18, 2011, Sidney Blumenthal — Clinton’s longtime friend and
political adviser — sent the then secretary of state an email to her
private account that contained apparently highly sensitive information
he had received from Tyler Drumheller, a former top CIA official with
whom Blumenthal at the time had a business relationship.“Tyler spoke to a colleague currently at CIA, who told him the agency
had been dependent for intelligence from [redacted due to sources and
methods],” the email states, according to Gowdy’s letter.The redacted information was “the name of a human source,” Gowdy
wrote to his Democratic counterpart, Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland,
and was therefore “some of the most protected information in our
intelligence community.”“Armed with that information, Secretary Clinton forwarded the email
to a colleague — debunking her claim that she never sent any classified
information from her private email address,” wrote Gowdy in a letter to
Cummings.

Access to social media platforms such as
Twitter and Facebook have been slowed down to a trickle in the wake of a
deadly dual suicide bombing at a peace rally in Ankara that killed at
least 86 and injured 186. Regular access is only available via Virtual
Private Network (VPN).

No official explanation has been given as to why Twitter or Facebook are
inaccessible, however Ankara has in the past resorted to blocking or
slowing down access to social media platforms when faced with security
crises or unfavorable coverage.

IT expert Füsun Sarp Nebil explains that it was a common tactic for the
Telecommunications Directorate (TİB) to restrict access to the sites
through internet service providers, slowing down access the same way one
may reduce a tap.

“To put it plainly, those in control of the tap are turning it down,”
she said, “After all there is nobody who knows, or cares, or is aware of
what is going on. This is a matter of ‘Net Neutrality.’ Before there
were violations of net neutrality for commercial considerations, but in
countries like ours it’s violated for political reasons.”

Hillary Clinton revealed on Wednesday that she opposes
the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, providing just the latest
evidence that she is little more than political ambition wrapped in a
pantsuit.
Pay attention to the press coverage, because it’s fascinating: Nobody
takes Clinton at her word. I’m not just referring to her conservative
critics.
Slate’s Jim Newell asks, “Will anyone find Clinton’s position convincing?” The question is purely rhetorical.
The article is headlined “Hillary Clinton Comes Out Against TPP, at Least Until the Democratic Convention.”
In “First Read,” a newsletter put out by “Meet the Press” host Chuck
Todd and his colleagues, the lead item on Thursday was titled “Why
Clinton’s Trade Flip-Flop Is So Unbelievable.” They write:
“Yes, Hillary Clinton’s new opposition to the Trans-Pacific
Partnership trade accord cleans up something she needed to do before
next week’s first Democratic debate. And, yes, it puts pressure on Vice
President Joe Biden getting into the race (because he’d be on the only
major candidate in support of TPP). But make no mistake: This flip-flop
isn’t believable at all.”Keep on reading…

Friday, October 9, 2015

Some senior U.S. officials involved in the implementation
of the Iran nuclear deal have privately concluded that a key sanctions
relief provision – a concession to Iran that will open the doors to tens
of billions of dollars in U.S.-backed commerce with the Islamic regime –
conflicts with existing federal statutes and cannot be implemented
without violating those laws, Fox News has learned.
At issue is a passage tucked away in ancillary paperwork attached to
the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA, as the Iran nuclear
deal is formally known. Specifically, Section 5.1.2 of Annex II provides
that in exchange for Iranian compliance with the terms of the deal, the
U.S. “shall…license non-U.S. entities that are owned or controlled by a
U.S. person to engage in activities with Iran that are consistent with
this JCPOA.”Keep on reading…

The mainstream media is always pointing out Republicans gap with Hispanics. Until this year, they were pointing out Republicans gap with women, but that seems to be closing recently. The don't point out Democrats gap with women. Hillary's gap is especially bad. Men hate her.

The swing-state polling is a mir­ror im­age of her na­tion­al num­bers. Last week, Quin­nipi­ac foundClin­ton’s
neg­at­ive rat­ings with white men at a stun­ning 72
per­cent—sig­ni­fic­antly worse than the Demo­crat­ic Party’s
already-ser­i­ous struggles with that demo­graph­ic group. Mean­while,
she’s not per­form­ing at nearly a strong-enough level with wo­men to
coun­ter­act the prob­lem. Only 49 per­cent of wo­men viewed her
fa­vor­ably in the poll, with 47 per­cent hold­ing neg­at­ive views. For
all the self-in­flic­ted prob­lems that Re­pub­lic­ans have in
reach­ing out to a di­ver­si­fy­ing coun­try, Hil­lary Clin­ton’s fa­vor­ab­il­ity with white men
is worse than Jeb Bush’s with His­pan­ics, Ben Car­son’s with
Afric­an-Amer­ic­ans, and Carly Fior­ina’s with wo­men in the same
sur­vey.

A group of New York inmates has toppled Harvard’s prestigious debate team.
It took place at the Eastern New York Correctional Facility, a
maximum-security prison in Napanoch. The Ivy League undergrads were
invited last month to debate the inmates who take in-prison courses
taught by Bard College faculty.
Harvard’s team won the national title this year and the world championship in 2014.Keep on reading…

On Monday, the Obama administration announced that President Obama would veto a defense authorization bill if it did not close down Guantanamo Bay. White House press secretary Josh Earnest explained that the House funding bill would be vetoed “principally because…of the irresponsible way that it funds our national defense priorities, but also because of the efforts to prevent the closure [of] the prison at Guantanamo Bay.” He added that Democrats would sustain Obama’s veto, and defense authorization would die.Obama’s strong stand on Gitmo underscores two vital points. First, President Obama does not fear defunding America’s national security. Second, Obama does not fear Republicans in Congress.

The Obama administration deported a record-low number of
criminal immigrants over the last year, according to government figures
not publicly released by the Department of Homeland Security.
The Associated Press reported that President Obama has deported fewer
immigrants with criminal convictions in the United States over the past
12 months than he has during his entire time in the White House.
Moreover, the number of total illegal immigrants deported in the last
year was less than at any time since 2006.
The total count of immigrant deportations has sunk 42 percent since
2012. Moreover, deportations declined by 84,000 between the 2014 and
2015 fiscal years.Keep on reading…

Border Patrol agents and others operating under the
umbrella of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) must now consider not
only the sex of the criminal they are detaining, but the “gender
identity” of the individual and how they feel and identify. The terms
“illegal alien” or even “illegal immigrant” do not appear at all in a
new 31-page instruction document. The new rules were published by CBP
and according to the agency, “includes language on gender identity,
which was not previously included in the individual component policies.
Specifically, whenever feasible, officers and agents who conduct a
search or are present at a medical examination must be of the same
gender, gender identity, or declared gender as the individual being
searched.”
A few highlights from the October 2015 National Standards on Transport, Escort, Detention, and Search are listed below:
Section 2.6: Ground Transportation and Escort Standards
Gender of Transporting/Escorting Officer/Agent
Whenever operationally feasible, transport/escort must be conducted by
two officers/agents with at least one being of the same gender or gender
identity as the detainee(s)Keep on reading…

Tuesday, October 6, 2015

It is supposed to be the model multicultural state. But
Sweden is facing problems of its own after gangs of immigrants spent a
fifth consecutive night rioting in Stockholm.
Officers are battling to keep the capital under control after
hundreds of cars were torched, a police station set alight and fire
services kept from a major blaze by a stone-throwing mob of youths.
To make matters worse, rioting has now spread to Sweden’s two other major cities, Gothenburg and Malmo.Keep on reading…

The UAW has been forced to take deals they really weren't happy with (are they ever?) over the last couple of contracts. Foreign competition and the economy left them in a poor negotiating position. Now, auto production is at record levels and Ford and GM are making good money. The UAW wants a cut.

The United Auto Workers is threatening to strike Fiat
Chrysler Automobiles NV by Wednesday night, signaling a breakdown in
efforts to salvage a labor deal widely rejected by members last week.
The UAW, representing 40,000 Fiat Chrysler employees in the U.S.,
said it plans to strike if it can’t reach a deal by Wednesday at
midnight, at which time a contract extension expires. If the union
follows through on its threat, it would represent the first walkout in a
contract against a U.S. auto maker since before the Detroit car
companies filed for bankruptcy in 2009.Keep on reading…

What’s the last place in the nation you’d expect a ban on patriotism?
Well, a Wyoming high school canceled the school’s homecoming tradition
of America Day for fear some kids might feel shut out.
Whaddaya know, seniors and juniors of Jackson Hole High School
protested — then went ahead and cloaked themselves in American flags and
stars and stripes anyway. Good on ya, kids.
Mike Hansen, the school’s activities director, said he wasn’t opposed
to the students being patriotic. But a meeting with the student council
had convinced him not all students felt American, and thus felt
“targeted and singled out by this day.”
“We’re trying to balance many different things here,” he said. “We’re
trying to be inclusive and safe, make everyone feel welcome.”

The social network is teaming up with the French
satellite company Eutelsat (ETCMY) to launch a satellite that will
provide internet access to people in sub-Saharan Africa. The satellite
will launch next year and service will start in the second half of 2016.
It will reach 14 countries in West, East and Southern Africa.
Facebook (FB, Tech30) will use the satellite to bring free Internet
access to rural areas. The company is using satellites, lasers and
drones to get the “next billion” people around the world online as part
of its Internet.org initiative. It has already connected people in
nearly 20 countries.Keep on reading…

Monday, October 5, 2015

On the left is the selfie Christopher Mercer uploaded to his social
media. On the right is how CNN presented the same selfie in broadcast
stories about him. Why did CNN need to change the complexion (color) of
their broadcast? Why is no-one showing pictures of mom, Laurel Margaret Harper.

Her campaign has called the House Select Committee on
Benghazi a “taxpayer-funded sham,” a “Republican hit-job,” and an
investigation designed to drive down poll numbers and play “electoral
politics with a terrorist attack.”
On Monday, at a televised town hall here in New Hampshire, Hillary
Clinton said as much and then some: She argued that the committee was
set up “for the sole purpose of going after me”; she accused Republicans
of exploiting the deaths of the four Americans killed in the Benghazi
attacks; and she said that, were she serving as president, she would’ve
tried to dismantle such a committee.
“This committee was set up as they have admitted for the purpose of
making a partisan, political issue out of the deaths of four Americans,”
Clinton said in a live town hall with about 70 voters, hosted by NBC
News. “I would’ve never done that. And if I were president, and there
were Republicans or Democrats who were thinking about that, I would have
done everything to shut it down.”Keep on reading…

Presidential contender Ben Carson‘s conflict with CAIR is
getting hotter since Carson’s headline-making interview about a
potential Muslim president.
The retired neurosurgeon on Saturday demanded that the IRS crack down
on the Council on American-Islamic Relations for violating regulations
that restrict the political involvement by groups that claim non-profit
status.
The IRS has shown no problem with attacking conservative groups on much flimsier grounds during the Obama era.
It’s largely faded from the headlines, but the IRS targeting of
conservative groups is one of the many “phony scandals” that have dogged
the Obama administration. In an email on Saturday, Carson demanded that
the IRS treat CAIR the way it treated conservative groups — with much
less reason.
“The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) held a public press
conference demanding that I withdraw from the presidential race,”
Carson observed in an email announcing a petition to remove CAIR’s
tax-exempt status, according to The Hill.
“Here’s the catch – CAIR is a tax-exempt nonprofit, and the IRS rules
explicitly prohibit such groups from intervening in political campaigns
on behalf of – or in opposition to – a candidate,” the email continues.Keep on reading…

DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Islamic
State militants have blown up the Arch of Triumph, a major monument in
the 2,000-year-old Roman city of Palmyra, Syria's antiquities chief said
on Sunday, after they destroyed two ancient temples at the central
Syrian site in recent months.

Maamoun Abdulkarim told Reuters that sources in Palmyra
had confirmed that the Arch of Triumph, a jewel in the exquisite
collection of ruins in the oasis city, had been blown up.

It looks like Republican voters are ready to clean house when it comes to the party's top two congressional leaders.
Following John Boehner’s sudden decision to step down as speaker of the
House of Representatives, 46% of Likely Republican Voters think Senate
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell also should resign. A new Rasmussen
Reports national telephone survey finds that just 22% of GOP voters
don’t think the longtime Kentucky senator should step down as majority
leader, but a sizable 32% are undecided. (To see survey question
wording, click here.)

If you wonder why outsiders are dominating the GOP presidential primaries, just check the above picture for understanding.

Adjectives matter in politics. The latest release of Hillary Clinton e-mails produced a little embarrassment for CBS News. State Department public-relations chief P.J. Crowley assured Secretary of State Clinton on January 28, 2011 that they successfully “planted” questions and suggestions for experts to "balance" a 60 Minutes interview segment by Steve Kroft with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

“I just received confirmation from 60 Minutes that a piece on Julian Assange will air Sunday night. He will be the only person featured. We had made a number of suggestions for outside experts and former diplomats to interview to ‘balance’ the piece. 60 Minutes assures me that they raised a number of questions and concerns we planted with them during the course of the interview. We will be prepared to respond to the narrative Assange presents during the program.”

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders supports
allowing some of the nation’s undocumented immigrants to obtain
health-care coverage under the Affordable Care Act, he told Democratic
lawmakers on Thursday.
The Vermont senator, who is running a competitive race against
Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton, made the
comments during a 45-minute meeting with members of the Congressional
Hispanic Caucus, according to attendees. The 26-member group is
comprised entirely of House and Senate Democrats.
Aides later said that Sanders believes that in certain cases,
undocumented immigrants should be able to purchase health insurance
through the exchanges set up under Obamacare, using their own money. The
senator has not advocated allowing the undocumented immigrants to
receive federal subsidies, his aides said.

Friday, October 2, 2015

“I was proud when my husband took [the National Rifle Association]
on, and we were able to ban assault weapons, but he had to put a sunset
on so 10 years later. Of course [President George W.] Bush wouldn’t
agree to reinstate them,” said Clinton.
“We’ve got to go after this,” Clinton continued. “And here again, the
Supreme Court is wrong on the Second Amendment. And I am going to make
that case every chance I get.”

The school, Umpqua Community College, was, in fact, a gun-free campus. An archived copy of their student code of conduct shows:

In addition to the written policy of the community college, the
university’s president, Rita Cavin, stated in a press conference that
the university is a gun-free campus and there are “no plans” to change
security policy.

Breitbart News has learned that President Obama called U.S. Secretary
of State John Kerry and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha
Power into a video conference before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu’s Speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday.“Ambassador Power and Secretary Kerry
were unable to attend Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s speech before
the General Assembly because they were called into a meeting with
President Obama, which they participated in via video teleconference,” a
State Department Official told Breitbart News.Although they were both in New York
for the United Nations General Assembly meetings, the two high-ranking
U.S. officials were notably absent for the entirety of the Israeli Prime
Minister’s speech.

A gunman singled out Christians, telling them they would see God in
“one second,” during a rampage at an Oregon college Thursday that left at least nine innocent people dead and several more wounded, survivors and authorities said.
“[He started] asking people one by one what their religion was. ‘Are
you a Christian?’ he would ask them, and if you’re a Christian stand up.
And they would stand up and he said, ‘Good, because you’re a Christian,
you are going to see God in just about one second.’ And then he shot
and killed them,” Stacy Boylen, whose daughter was wounded at Umpqua
Community College in Roseburg, Ore., told CNN.
A twitter user named @bodhilooney,”
who said her grandmother was at the scene of the carnage, tweeted that
if victims said they were Christian “then they were shot in the head. If
they said no, or didn’t answer, they were shot in the legs.”
Gunman Chris Harper-Mercer’s disdain for religion was evident in an
online profile, in which he became a member of a “doesn’t like organized
religion” group on an Internet dating site.